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It's possible. I know that happens in fashion and music, you gets waves of influences from different decades being popular again as soon as the people who were young during them have some clout in the business world. Or it's just a marketing scheme devised to prey on people who do honestly have those nostalgic feelings.
I totally agree about the waves of fashion and music. But those tend to be generational waves, not annual ones.
I just get this weird impression that there are people walking around in the publishing world who have their lizard brains branded with the notion of summer vs. winter reading, etc., and I just don't get it or even see the point. To me, it's like having the automobile industry tell me in October that it's time to replace the manual crank on my Model T because winter is coming.
I just get this weird impression that there are people walking around in the publishing world who have their lizard brains branded with the notion of summer vs. winter reading, etc., and I just don't get it or even see the point. To me, it's like having the automobile industry tell me in October that it's time to replace the manual crank on my Model T because winter is coming.
I don't know. I do find I tend to be more inclined to read long, heavy books in winter, though my tastes in genre remain the same all year round. Could it be like with food, where you feel there are certain things you eat in summer and some you eat in winter? I know some of that is based on seasonal meat and veg, but people adhere to it quite strictly sometimes. Some books make you feel summery, whereas some make you feel warm in wintertime. But judging from the choices on that site, they're all just plain old normal books coming under this header of "Summer Reads".
I am trolling 
Nothing light about Turgenev and it should only be read if you got an interest in russian literature or history. It's really heavy. When I studied history it was a part of my curriculum and it took up half of my preparation time before the exam despite being only 250 pages. The curriculum was about 2000 pages in all.
Nothing light about Turgenev and it should only be read if you got an interest in russian literature or history. It's really heavy. When I studied history it was a part of my curriculum and it took up half of my preparation time before the exam despite being only 250 pages. The curriculum was about 2000 pages in all.
I am trolling Nothing light about Turgenev and it should only be read if you got an interest in russian literature or history. It's really heavy. When I studied history it was a part of my curriculum and it took up half of my preparation time before the exam despite being only 250 pages. The curriculum was about 2000 pages in all.
Nothing light about Turgenev and it should only be read if you got an interest in russian literature or history. It's really heavy. When I studied history it was a part of my curriculum and it took up half of my preparation time before the exam despite being only 250 pages. The curriculum was about 2000 pages in all.
I get the food thing. The irony being that we modern humans haven't been seasonal enough anymore. Today we expect to go to the supermarket and to be able to purchase produce such as tomatoes, strawberries and zucchini all year long. So why would books be an exception to that rule?
If you look to movies, there are summer blockbusters (typically action flicks, major budget movies, comic book heroes and the like targeted for May/June). But other than the biggest of the big budget movies, they release them at just about any time of year now -- other than the financial incentive of targeting them to teen boys when they have the most free time on their hands.
It's as if there's this gravitational pull that's naturally accepted by these "summer reading" advocates, and I experience none of that and wonder how such dinosaurs exist in today's climate. Why is this myth being perpetuated when every other aspect of our society has grown out of some annual seasonality?
If you look to movies, there are summer blockbusters (typically action flicks, major budget movies, comic book heroes and the like targeted for May/June). But other than the biggest of the big budget movies, they release them at just about any time of year now -- other than the financial incentive of targeting them to teen boys when they have the most free time on their hands.
It's as if there's this gravitational pull that's naturally accepted by these "summer reading" advocates, and I experience none of that and wonder how such dinosaurs exist in today's climate. Why is this myth being perpetuated when every other aspect of our society has grown out of some annual seasonality?
